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Jan 4, 2018
Join the hosts as they put your memory to the test with a year-in-review quiz packed with shocking statistics. Discover the grim details of US mass shootings and compare it to the staggering number of plastic bottles sold every minute. Dive into significant milestones like the women who won Nobel Awards in 2017 and Chris Froome's impressive Tour de France wins. Plus, learn about Hurricane Harvey's impact and the astonishing depth tolerance of the Mariana snailfish. It's a fun and eye-opening quiz adventure!
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Answers-First Quiz Twist
- Jackie reads a list of 11 numeric answers before asking questions to Richard.
- This flips a quiz format to test recall and association rather than pure knowledge.
Yearly Events Encoded As Numbers
- The episode frames 11 news-based questions from 2017 covering violence, environment, and records.
- The quiz highlights how many major events can be summarized numerically for quick recall.
Mass Shootings: Scale And Frequency
- Question one and two focus on mass shootings and frequency in the US, showing public safety was a major 2017 concern.
- Presenting both a single incident death toll and average frequency frames scale and repetition together.